Annandale is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony, lordship, earldom and regality in the counties of Dumfries and Fife. It also appears in the sources as Annandaill.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
No reference recorded yet.
Retours and Lyon records
Retours place-name index entry known; exact numbered retour/date not yet resolved.
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland
RPS, 1669/10/120: ratification by Parliament in 1669, in favour of James Johnston, earl of Annandale, of his Crown charter with its erection of the lands “in a whole and free barony, lordship, earldom, regality and justiciary … to be called the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell and lordship of Johnston” (in the modern translation of the Records of the Parliaments). Read the record ↗
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